Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] the [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prisons , such as Preston and Portsmouth , which had been closed as civil prisons since the 1930s , had to be re-opened to contain the larger numbers . |
| 2 | Gradually over the years the term has come to mean the minimum number of members who must be present if the meeting is to transact business . |
| 3 | When compiling the timetable , a time should be selected to enable the maximum number of trained staff to attend . |
| 4 | The black-and-white and colour information in each adjacent pair of lines in each picture is then averaged to halve the total number of lines . |
| 5 | Fibreglass mock-ups were built to provide the large numbers of aircraft which lined the numerous military bases across Pearl Harbor . |
| 6 | Historians recently decided to lower the estimated number of Auschwitz victims , from 4m — a figure chosen by Soviet soldiers who liberated the camp in 1945 — to between 1m and 2m , an estimate based on transport documents which have only recently come to light . |
| 7 | And then you 've got to dial the right numbers or else you wo n't get grandma , you 'll get somebody else . |
| 8 | Tickets , likely to cost £1 , will go on sale by 1994 in shops and booths linked to a state-of-the-art computer which will be used to draw the winning numbers . |
| 9 | got to give the same number to Jonathan as you give to yourself . |
| 10 | You 've got to give the same numbers |
| 11 | Variance component analysis was also used to calculate the required number of crypts ( equation [ 1 ] resolved for n ) to estimate the proliferation index for a subject within a 95% confidence interval with one , two , or three biopsy samples separately for each method ( Table III ) . |
| 12 | But we recognise that , in addition to a much higher rate of new building , additional emergency measures are needed to reduce the tragic number of homeless people . |
| 13 | It is not , though , beyond the bounds of possibility they were used to control the large numbers of rats that inhabited the countryside in the Middle Ages and thereafter . |
| 14 | Vulnerable old person This term will be used to distinguish the small number of very frail old people from the majority of competent independent elderly people over 65 . |
| 15 | Both couples tacitly agreed to make the maximum number of public appearances together , the Emperor escorting the Queen while the Empress walked with the Princes . |
| 16 | A work on the birds of Europe might be of limited scientific value , as Gould himself confessed — it could hardly uncover any startling revelations — but it would be bound to attract the crucial number of subscribers . |
| 17 | The consent of two-thirds of the directors of the House of Industry was necessary before the building could be transferred , and after the Mayor , Dr. George Witt , had met in ‘ a somewhat private way ’ with the Commissioner , a special meeting was called to obtain the required number of signatures . |
| 18 | One of the policies proposed to reduce the large number of people looking for work and thus to reduce the level of unemployment , consists of ensuring that fewer women from the secondary population enter the labour market . |
| 19 | The calculation of unemployment statistics is somewhat different in Australia , the United States , Canada and Japan where sample surveys are taken to estimate the total number of people who are without jobs but have actually been searching for work during the sample period . |
| 20 | The first steps have been taken to catalogue the large number of outstanding musical accessions . |
| 21 | ( Increase the stitches after the mock rib has been worked to give the same number as the pattern . ) |
| 22 | ( Increase the stitches after the mock rib has been worked to give the same number as the pattern . ) |
| 23 | ( Increase the stitches after the mock rib has been worked to give the same number as the pattern . ) |
| 24 | The school was extended to accommodate the increased number of children and an additional school was built for the infants . |
| 25 | or you might be tempted to put if it 's just one , one to ten or something , you might be tempted to put the wrong number in |
| 26 | He therefore never spoke ill of Harrow ; and on one occasion he announced in a speech there that when he was first called upon to form a government he was determined to have the unprecedented number of six Harrovians in his Cabinet . |
| 27 | In 1902 the weekly African Standard was launched to serve the growing number of white settlers and administrators in British East Africa . |
| 28 | The report stated that another 40 results were outstanding and that repeat elections were to be held in 20 constituencies where candidates had failed to receive the minimum number of votes . |
| 29 | The admissions authority is , in any event , required to keep the standard number under review . |
| 30 | The capital stock will be just as fully utilized at point B as at point A , but fewer men will be required to operate the fixed number of machines . |